Nancy Frasure-Smith, PhD

Nancy Frasure-Smith is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at McGill; Senior Research Associate at the Montreal Heart Institute; Professeure Associée, Département de psychiatrie, Université de Montréal; and associated Researcher at the Centre de Recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM). She completed her PhD in sociology at the Johns Hopkins University and postdoctoral training in psychology at McGill. She first came to the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry in the early 1980’s as a researcher working with the late Dr Raymond Prince on the Ischemic Heart Disease Life Stress Monitoring Study. Since then, her research program, carried out in conjunction with psychiatrists, cardiologists and nurses at McGill, the Université de Montréal and the Montreal Heart Institute, has focused on:

assessing the importance of psychological and social variables in the development and prognosis of cardiovascular disease;

exploring physiological and behavioural mechanisms linking psychological and social variables with cardiovascular disease;

developing and evaluating interventions to change the impact of psychological and social variables in cardiovascular disease.